LOGAN COUNTY - An ambulance carrying five people, including a pregnant woman, slammed into a semi truck - killing two people on I-76 last Tuesday evening. Kelsey Schlichenmayer was transported to Swedish Medical Center by AirLIFE helicopter. Doctors delivered her baby … [Read more...]
E.M.S. OPERATIONAL SAFETY IN SPOTLIGHT
A Colorado state health official said Thursday he plans to make ambulance safety a key agenda item in the wake of two Colorado ambulance crashes that have killed three people this month. Randy Kuykendall, chief of the emergency medical and trauma services section at the … [Read more...]
WINTER PARK HELPS DESIGN SAFER AMBULANCE
The new seats and 5-point harnesses should improve treatment for patients.Robert PeRezSentinel Staff WriterFebruary 28, 2006WINTER PARK -- Paramedics and EMTs take precautions to avoid the dangers of their jobs. But they have little control over being bounced around in the … [Read more...]
TWO SENT TO HOSPITAL AFTER AMBULANCE STRIKES TRUCK IN PA.
BY AILEEN HUMPHREYS, Intelligencer Journal StaffAn ambulance broadsided a pickup truck Sunday on Route 30 in Salisbury Township, triggering a three-vehicle accident that sent two people to the hospital, a firefighter said.The ambulance was not transporting a patient at the … [Read more...]
9/11 FDNY EMS WORKER WHO DIED OF CANCER IS LAID TO REST
A retired paramedic who helped in the rescue and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site was laid to rest (in March, 2006) in the Bronx. Debbie Reeve, 41, was a paramedic for 17 years. She died of mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer often caused by … [Read more...]
WOMAN KILLED IN CRASH WITH AMBULANCE
BOULDER -- A woman was killed Monday night when she drove her Honda into the path of an ambulance running with red light and siren at 30th Street and Euclid Avenue.Names of the woman and the Pridemark Paramedic Services ambulance driver are not available. Julie Brooks, … [Read more...]
REPORT: CALIFORNIA PARAMEDIC PRONOUNCED WOMAN DEAD WITHOUT TOUCH-STRUCK BY TRAIN WAS ALIVE FOR AN HOUR AFTER AMBULANCE ARRIVED AT SCENE
News-Sentinel Staff Writer Last updated: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 - 06:33:03 am PDTA paramedic didn't touch a Lodi woman before he pronounced her dead after she was struck by a train last week, according to a Lodi Fire Department report released Tuesday.But Lillian Flaherty, … [Read more...]